Editing Albert Uderzo (section)

==Working with Goscinny==
[[File:Albert Uderzo en 1973.jpg|thumb|Uderzo in Montreal, 1973]]
After working on various creations and travelling for the next few years, Uderzo met [[René Goscinny]] in 1951. The two men quickly became good friends, and decided to work together in 1952 at the newly opened Paris office of the Belgian company, World Press. Their first creations were the characters [[Oumpah-pah]], Jehan Pistolet and Luc Junior.<ref name="lambiek">{{cite web | last = Lambiek Comiclopedia | title = Albert Uderzo | url =http://lambiek.net/artists/u/uderzo.htm}}</ref><ref name="lagardere">{{cite web | last = Lagardère | title = Release of the 33rd Asterix volume | url =http://www.lagardere.com/us/actualites/detail_actu.cfm?idt=9&idn=5994&nav=0 }}</ref> In 1958 they adapted ''Oumpah-pah'' for serial publication in the [[Franco-Belgian comics]] magazine ''[[Tintin (magazine)|Tintin]]'', where it ran until 1962.<ref name="asterix int">{{cite web|last=Asterix International! |title=Albert Uderzo |url=http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/uderzo.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041208183211/http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/uderzo.shtml |archive-date=8 December 2004 }}</ref> In 1959 Goscinny and Uderzo became editor and artistic director (respectively) of ''[[Pilote]]'' magazine, a new venture aimed at older children. The magazine's first issue introduced [[Astérix]] to the French world, and it was an instant hit.<ref name="lambiek"/><ref name="Pilote-1959">{{cite web | last =BDoubliées | title =Pilote année 1959 | url =http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/series1/asterix.htm | language = fr }}</ref> During this period Uderzo also collaborated with [[Jean-Michel Charlier]] on the realistic series ''[[Tanguy et Laverdure|Michel Tanguy]]'', later named ''Les Aventures de Tanguy et Laverdure''.<ref name="lambiek"/>

Astérix was serialised in ''Pilote'', and in 1961 the first story ''Astérix le Gaulois (Asterix the Gaul)'' was published as an individual album.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jarvis |first1=Alice-Azania |title=The Timeline: Astérix comics |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-timeline-ast-rix-comics-2361874.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325134938/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-timeline-ast-rix-comics-2361874.html |archive-date=2020-03-25 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=25 March 2020 |work=The Independent |date=28 September 2011}}</ref> New Astérix albums were regularly published by the duo over the next sixteen years, until Goscinny’s sudden death in 1977. Thereafter Uderzo continued to write and illustrate the books on his own, published by his own publishing house "Albert René",<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wünsch |first1=Silke |title=Asterix creator Albert Uderzo turns 90 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/asterix-creator-albert-uderzo-turns-90/a-38574295 |access-date=25 March 2020 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=25 April 2017 |page=5}}</ref> though at a significantly slower pace (averaging one edition every three to five years compared to two editions a year when working with Goscinny).<ref>{{cite news |title=Astérix: Uderzo jette l'éponge |url=https://www.lesechos.fr/1994/06/asterix-uderzo-jette-leponge-883566 |access-date=27 March 2020 |work=Les Echos |date=6 June 1994 |language=fr}}</ref>